I love my husband, I love the trader folk, but they don't bathe properly!

Switters was relieved to find Masked Beauty alone, that she wore her veil (the wart having struck him as pathological), and that her quarters were once again clouded with incense: he'd awakened too late to bathe properly, and Cupid's briny chlorines clung to him like clamskin britches.

Water could be pumped from the well, but who could bathe properly in cold water?

Not unless you bathe properly.

He would give Harriet some privacy by finding Cadwell, and then bespeak a separate room so he could properly bathe and clean up himself.

He had to be retaught how to properly bathe himself by his manager while working on The Howard Stern Show.

There is also an early list of 17 rules for "how to bathe properly" (including the injunction to be "fearless and full of joy").

Once I taught her to bathe properly she was quite attractive-good figure, pleasant face and manner, good teeth, and her breath was sweet.